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Test 2 · Plastics: useful and stubborn

"plastic's evil, ban all of it, even in hospitals". What would happen without plastic in hospitals?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: evil · What happens: ban, happen · To what, where: all, hospitals

This is test 2 of lesson 29 «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: "plastic's evil, ban all of it, even in hospitals".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ban	punct
2	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evil	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 plastic	case
4	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ban	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 evil	punct
6	ban	ban	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ban	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hospitals	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 hospitals	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 hospitals	case
13	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ban	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hospitals	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ban	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban in a quote	infinitive	plastic's evil	all					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer all=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What would happen without plastic in hospitals?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 plastic	case
5	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 hospitals	case
7	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				hospitals		without plastic	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hospital=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keeping tools germ-free would be much harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keeping	obj
3	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 free	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 germ	punct
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tools	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 harder	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 harder	cop
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 harder	advmod
9	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Keeping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		tools germ free					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme
2	is	would	tools germ free not said here					hard property	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Doctors would just quietly use plastic anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 use	advmod
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 use	advmod
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would	Doctors	plastic				anyway, quietly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Patient

Option 4

Medicine would work much better without it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 work	advmod
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would	Medicine					without it	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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